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Ahmad Jamal

"Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well."

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"Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"You don't have to know anything about music to understand what I write. Mine are simple melodies."

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"The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work."
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"Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well."
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